Designed to give Company Secretaries, Senior Management and Board Directors an in-depth facilitated session that will enable them to review and refresh their own governance practices and communication, alignment to strategy, benchmark output to good best practices and facilitate effective governance delivery to both internal and external stakeholders. A leading consultancy firm will guide you through assessing the key actions necessary to help you deliver a step change in governance practices in order to support value. The session covers the breadth of corporate governance policy, compliance and disclosure practices, with latest developments in the governance field, evolving good practices in reporting and communication as well as exploring aspects of company culture and leadership styles. Central to this session is the fund manager led discussion which will provide an excellent opportunity to hear first-hand how and why effective governance and how it is communicated can impact on value. The session offers a wealth of case study materials and real life examples and armed with this knowledge course delegates will be able to perform their own benchmarking in a facilitated workshop at the end of the session.

Why attend?

In addition to the in-depth review and update on governance related matters, there are several key outcomes that you can expect from this course;

Benchmark your own governance practices against industry good practice standards for plcs

Understand the latest regulatory changes and learn what the likely changes will mean for you

Learn how to develop best in class governance practices that are aligned to strategy and stakeholder interests

Appreciate how investors can support the board and its governance processes

Understand what drives value across your organisation

Understand how important leadership and culture are to governance

Gain from the knowledge and experience of leading governance consultancy

Who should attend

This half day course has been designed to appeal to the following professionals:

Company Secretaries

Board Directors

Senior Management

Key takeaways

A full copy of the course materials and examples

A series of case studies covering best practices that will serve as a reference guide and support your overall learning outcomes from the session.

If you require a private session for individual questions we can provide individual coaching sessions on a one-to-one basis with the course tutor.

Registration fee: £495 + VAT

Claire Fargeot

Claire Fargeot is founder of Claire Fargeot Associates, a corporate governance and strategic investor relations consultancy. Prior to founding the consultancy Claire worked as Head of Standards and Financial Market Integrity for EMEA at CFA Institute, the world’s largest association of investment professionals dedicated to developing and promoting the highest educational, ethical, and professional standards in the investment industry.

Sarah Bell

Sarah Bell is a partner in Grant Thornton’s Large Corporate Initiative. She has extensive experience in restructuring complex international organisations including improvement of governance to support delivery of strategy and align effective decision making. Her recent governance experience has included leading the advice on the corporate renewal of a large UK retailer, best practice benchmarking assessments (both FTSE and AIM), assessment of internal control and risk frameworks and support in the implementation of change programmes.

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10 Paternoster Square

London

EC4M 7LS

United Kingdom

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Effectiveness – looks at how challenge is delivered within an organisation